Buying Things On Ebay Can Be Hard If Your New To Ebay, But If Your An Already An Ebay Shopper Then Your Pretty Much Have An Idea How Things Work.

But Of Course This Faq Is To Help People Who Have At Least An Ebay Account On Ebay & Needing Things Like This Guide To Help You Get The Things You Want & More Without As Much Hard Work For It.


On Ebay You Have Many Choices To Go With Such As Pay Pal, Cash, Check, Money Order, Credit Card "being regular or/& debit".

Of Course Many People Use 1 &/Or More Of These, Of Course I Will Show You Which One Is The Best For You.


Using Pay Pal, This Method Is Safe & Fast For Getting The Things You Want Online, But Of Course Does Require You To Sign Up For It To Even Get It & Does Require Credit Card Information, Etc.

But Of Course It's Highly Used Among People On Ebay, Seeing How Using It Can Help Get The Things You Win Faster With Fewer Problems Then Most Other Means Of Payment.

Though There Are Draw Backs For Using Pay Pal, Being That On A Free Account Of Pay Pal Has A Limit Of How Much Money You Can Have In It.

Another Being Is Having To Keep Track Of How Much Money You Have In Your Pay Pal Account In Making Sure That Only The Amount You Paid For Was Taken Out.

Not To Mention It's Real Easy To Get Carried Away In Buying Stuff & End Up Realizing That You Forgot To Put Money In Your Pay Pal Account & Having Ebay & Pay Pal Suspend Both Your Accounts For It.

Seeing As Having Pay Pal Is Like Having To Watch Your Bank Account, & Isn't By Means A Simple Means To Put Money In.

However If Your Not The Type Of Person That Likes Having To Deal With All This Stuff Then Pay Pal Might Not Be For You.


Using Cash, This Method Is Risky & Slow In Getting The Things You Want Online.

People On Ebay Normally Don't Always Use Cash As Means Of Payment, But That Doesn't Mean It's Not Safe, Just Risky.

Cash Is Normally Used In Auctions That Have It As A Choice, Or A Choice You Ask For When Wanting To Bid On That Item.

Simply Put, Cash In Small Amounts Like No More Then $20 Dollars Or Less Is One Thing Seeing How Losing $20 Dollars Isn't As Big Of A Deal As $100 Dollars Would Be.

Normally It's Preferred That Cash Would Be Consider A Last Choice & Should Be Something For Things 20 Dollars Or Less.

Of Course The Money Method Is Normally Used For International Buying Of Things Being When Money Orders Don't Seem To Work Like When Your Bidding On Something & The Person Your Sending Payments Likes In The UK.

So Normally Like That, But Also Some People Just Use Cash To Save There Self From Wasting A Check, Or The Payment Of A Money Order, Simply Just To Save There Self Time, Etc.

Of Course Keep In Mind That Cash Would Have To Be Sent In A Letter Envelope & Having Cash Concealed So No One But the Person Your Sending Payment To Gets It.

Normally People Won't Try To Screw You Over On $20 Or Less Things Specially If They Have A Lot Positive Feed Backs.

However It's A Risk, But Still An Option None The Less To Have.


Using A Check, This Method Is Safe But Very Risky & Slow In Getting The Things You Want Online.

People On Ebay Normally Don't Use Checks To Buy Things Online Because Of Reasons Of Fraud, Among Other Things.

But Also Because Of Your Account Numbers Listed In The Bottom Left Part Of Your Check Have The Numbers Which Could Be Used Against You If Sent To The Wrong Person Who Could Use Those Numbers To Get Into Your Bank Account & Take You For All Your Worth.

Of Course This Isn't Saying This Will Happen, But It Has Happen Non the Less To People.

Seeing As All It Would Take Is One Person, Of Course A Lot People Out There Won't Do That But Have To Ask Yourself Is My Money Worth Throwing Away Over A Item I Want If I End Up Having My Bank Account Hacked Into?

The Answer Is No, But Another Thing Being As That Most People Use Checks For Places They Know They Can Trust, & So Sending Payment To A Place You Can Trust On Ebay Can Be Tricky, Because They'll Good People On Ebay To Send Checks To But The Hard Is Figuring Out Is Who.

With That Being Said Makes This One Of The Least Likely Means Of Sending Payment Only Because Of The Things A Person Has To Go Through Just To Get Something They Want.


Using A Credit Card, This Method Is Very Unsafe & Very Risky, Very Fast In Getting The Things You Want Online.

People On Ebay Normally Use This As They Do Pay Pal, However Your Credit Card Being A Bank Card From Your Bank Being A Debit Card Or Just A Regular Credit Card Being Used On Ebay.

Using Your Credit Card To Buy Things Online Is A Good Way To Ruin Your Credit &/Or Bank Account.

Seeing As Any Given Person You Give It To On Ebay Could Use It Against You Without You Even Knowing It, This Isn't To Say Everyone On Ebay Is Out To Get You.

But There Has Been Cases Of Fraud On Ebay, Not To Mention That People Can Some Times Forget To Have Money/credit On There Cards To Be Able To Buy Things & End Up & Having Ebay Suspend Account For It, Among Some Other Not So Good Things.

Though Credit Cards Being Regular Or Debit Are Best Used In Person Then Online, Seeing As Doesn't Seem Worth The Risk To Ruin Your Credit Or/& Your Bank Account & Having To Worry About It Every Time You Buy Something Online With It/Them.

Though Using Your Credit Card Can Help Get What You Want Fast, Just Doesn't Seem Worth The Things You Have To Go Through Or Could Go Through With This Choice.


Using A Money Order, This Method Is The Safest, Easiest, Slowest In Getting The Things You Want Online.

People On Ebay Consider This The Under Dog Choice Of Payment Seeing How Other People Prefer Pay Pal & What Not.

But This Is Considered More Convenient Then Giving Out Your Credit Card Numbers, Or Having To Sign Up For Pay Pal, Or Writing A Check Or Using Cash.

This Method Of Course Isn't Perfect But Money Orders Do Have Tracking Numbers Wither It Be A Regular Or International Money Order.

So At Most Even If The Person Your Sending Payment Tries Anything, There’s A Number On The Money Order You Get To Report Fraud & Get The Money Order Back To Get Your Money Back.

Of Course The Only Bad Thing About A Money Order Is The Fact It's The Slowest Of All Payment Options, Seeing How It Can Take Much Longer To Get The Things You Buy Online.

That & Not Everyone Accepts Them On Ebay, But Of Course This Method Is A Lot Less Riskier Then Most Of There Other Payment Options.

However Money Orders Are For People That Are For People Not Looking To Risk Anything Other Then There Time & A Dollar Or Less For What They Pay To Get It & Fill It Out, Etc.

But In End This Is Consider The Best Payment Choice To Make If Your New To Ebay Or Simply Someone Who Prefers A Safe Way To Do Business With People.


On Ebay The Only Thing You Must Learn, When There’s A Will There’s A Way, Being If There’s Not A Door There, Make One!

Contacting The Seller & Asking Them If It Would Be Possible To Send Them A Money Order & To Ask Them For Address To Send It To Them.

Of Course You Must Do This Before Actually Bidding/Buying Something From The Person You Plan To Do Business With, Etc.

Of Course You Must Also Have At Least A Few Positive Feed Backs First Seeing As They My Deny Or Tell You No If You Have 0 Feed Backs, Specially If You Have Lot's Of Bad Feed Backs.

With This A Side If You Say It Nicely & Tell Them Your A Decent Ebay Buyer & Promise & Reinsure Them That Payment By Means Of Money Order Would Be Sent Then Most Likely They'll Say Yes.

However If They Say No, That’s There Choice & Should Reply & Tell Them Thanks Any Ways, & To Thank Them For There Time In Replaying Back.

& Maybe In The Future They Might Consider Doing Business With You When You Gotten More Feed Backs.

If They Do Accept, You Should Reply & Say Thanks For Accepting These Means Of Payment With You!

Of Course It's Important You Make Sure If You Do Win That Auction Either By Bidding Or Just The Buy Now Thing That You Live Up To Your Word & Send Them Payment Otherwise You'll End Up With Feed Back.

But This Is A Good Way To Gain Trust In The People Your Buying From & To Get Good Feed Back.

Of Course It's A Great Way To Get The Items Your Bidding/Buying Without Having To Feel Discriminated Against In Terms Of Payment Choices.

With That Said Should Help You On That Part, Of Course You Can Change Money Order To Check, Cash By Changing The Words Around But It'll Mean The Same Thing.


On Ebay Even The Best People With Lot's Of Positive Feed Back Can Often Have The People There Doing Business Question Them On When There Payment Was Sent, & When They Should Be Expecting To Get It, Etc.

Some Even Open Disputes, &/Or Don't Even Bother Answering Your Emails For Days Or More At Time.

Though Of Course Things Like This Can Anger People, Which Is Often Something That Happens On Ebay, & Is One Of The Things That Lead To Bad Feed Backs For Both People.

However With Some Understanding & Patience You Could End Up With Things Going Much Better Then Getting Mad & That Seeing As That Isn't Going To Get The Item You Want Any Faster.

So With That In Mind, Simply Just Email The Person Before & After Payment Has Been Sent & Tell Them The Following.

Hello I'm Ebay User "insert your ebay name here" & I'm Sending You This So You Know That Payment Has Been Sent By Means Of Money Order.

However Much Like I Tell Anyone I Do Business With It Will In Fact Take Anywhere Between 3-7 Days More Or Less Then Given Here To Get To You Pending On How Far A Way It Is From Me.

Seeing As I'm Mailing It From "insert where you live here being country & state or if your international buyer just put the country & what part".

Also It'll Depend On How Slow/Fast The Mail Service Runs On When It Gets There.

So If You Don't Get The Money Order In A Few Days Keep These Things In Mind To Understand Why.

Also If You Email Me Asking Where/Why Payment Hasn't Been Received A Copy Of This Will Be Sent To You Again As A Reminder.

I Do This To Insure The People I Buy From That I Take There Getting There Payments Serious & This Being My Way Of Insuring You Of That.

The Only Thing I Ask Is To Email Me When You Get It, Also If You Want The Tracking Number Of The Money Order Just Ask For It & I'll Give You It.

Thanks For Your Time Sign Ebay User "insert your ebay user name here".

This Normally Works, Though Some Times You Have To Send Them This Thing Again When They Ask About Payment Or If You Don't Hear From Them In 2-3 Days, So If A Dispute Comes Up.

Then You Can Say Hey I Sent My Payment & I Sent You Emails/Messages About When You Should Get It, & How Long It Would Take & Why So Leaving Little Or No Reason For The Person Your Doing Business With To Say Other Wise Of You Seeing As You Made Your Case.

With That Said Should Help You On That Part, Of Course You Can Change Money Order To Check, Cash By Changing The Words Around But It Will Mean The Same Thing.

Also As Long As You Have The Tracking Number You Can Also Email Them Telling Them If They Want The Money Order Tracking Number You Can Give Them It At There Request So To Show Them You Did Buy A Money Order & Sent Them One, Which Is Good To Prevent People From Scamming You By Making It Like They Never Got It.

Normally It Does In Fact Takes Days Or Even A Week Or So From Where You Live To Send Someone Payment To Which.

What Thing In Mind Is Why What I Wrote Here Is Important Because Lets Be Realistic Here I live In KY, USA & If I Bought Something From Say CA, USA & I'm Sending Them A Money Order Or Whatever It's Going To Take At Least 5 Or More Days To Get There I Mean That’s A Fact.

But Also Because It Better To Be Realistic & Honest Then Having The People You Buying From Thinking You Could Have Payment Sent To Them In Under A Few Days That’s Just Silly & Un Realistic.

However With The Information I Have Here Should Help Get What You Need With Little Or No Problems.

Keep In Mind People That You By From Might Get Mad Or Email You Asking For Payment, Or Other Things, But In The End Once They Get There Payment & Realize You Spoke The Truth They'll Send Your Winning Item/Items, & Any Disputes That Was Made Will Be Closed.


Normally I Don't Leave Feed Back Until I Get What I Paid For, Then I Leave Them Feed Back, Normally Good Feed Back, As Long As You Got It That’s All That Matters, No Sense In Having Yourself Get Mad & Get Bad Feed Back For It.

Though That’s Just The Method I Use, Which In The End Helps Me As It Does Them & So Everyone’s Happy.

Bad Feed Back Is Normally Only Consider When You Waited A Month Or More & Never See The Item You Bought & Never Get Any Responses From The Person You Did Business With, Things Like That.

Though Ebay Clearly States That You Do Anything/Everything As Nicely As Possible To Resolve Any Issues There Is Before Doing Anything Harsh.

But Of Course There’s Always The Simple Reporting Person Thing, &/Or Despite Thing.

Though I Won't Lie There’s Always Going To Be A Chance Once In A Blue Moon Thing That You'll End Up Being Screwed Out Of Money/Item But Luckily This Only Happens Like Once Every 10 Things You Buy, & It's All At Random.

Normally This Doesn't Happen When You Buy From People That Have A Great Deal Of Positive Feed Back, But Everyone Knows Ebay Is Risky In Nature But Most Of The Time It's A Safe & Fun Place To Find Stuff.


Being A Normal Ebay Shopper Is Fine, But The Question You Should Ask Yourself Should I Do The Same Things Or Try Something Bold That Might Better Benefit Me.

Simply Put It's All About Getting The Things You Want That You Bid/Buy On Ebay.

After All It's Your Money So Why Not Get More For It Then Everyone Else.

Most People Just Bid On Stuff, & Normally Have So-So Chances Of Getting It Unless They Want To End Up Paying More Then What They Could Have Gotten For It Without The Hassle Of Bidding Wars.

Bidding Wars Is When You Bid, Then Someone Else’s Bids, & You Bid, Which In The End Just Makes The Price For That Item Go Up Higher, But There’s A Way To Avoid That.

When There Are No Bids For An Item You Want, It's Normally Best To Wait Till The Last Minute To Bid Being Like The Last 10, 15 Minutes Of That Auction, The Less Time The Better.

After All Some People Have It Where They Get Emails Telling Them They Be Out Bided, But By Cutting It Short, By The Time They Notice It Will Be To Late For Them To Do Anything About It.

Seeing As This Increases Your Chances In Winning It Without Paying More For It.

Though Of Course If You See 1 Or More People That’s Bidding On It, It's Simply Waiting Till The Last Few Minutes To Make A Slightly Higher Bid In Price For That Item No More Then A Dollar To 5 Dollars At Most.

Of Course There’s Always A Chance You'll Still Get Out Bided & Lose The Auction But At Least Your Being More Aggressive About Paying Only What You Need Other Then Paying 2 Or More Times The Normal Price Of That Item.

But The Thing Is At Most This Helps Increase Your Odds, But When You Know There’s Other People Wanting The Same Thing You Do Even If No One Bids On It.

But Your Better Off Not Chancing It After All Bidding On It Just Makes The Price Go Up.

So It's All About Timing & Being Cunning.

After All There’s No Point To Pay For Say A Dress That’s Only 20 Bucks, & End Up Having Bid Wars With Someone & End Up Being Almost 70 Dollars Knowing Had You Just Waited Till The Last Few Minutes Of The Auction You Could Have Gotten It At Most A Few Dollars Or So More Then What You Wanted.

Keep In Mind It Depends On How Much Other People Want It, How Much Your Willing To Spend For It, Etc.

Another Thing Being To Try Is Finding The Things You Want By Searching Through What’s On Sell, Seeing As There Isn't Any Point Paying Full Price For Something If Someone Else Might Have It For A Lot Less.

After All Most People Just Find Things, & Bid On In It & Hope They Win, People Like Me Being The Other People Use Methods Like These To Get The Things We Want So Not Having To Deal With All That Bidding War Stuff.

All In All When These Methods Are Done Right You Could Be Having Your Cake & Eating It To.


When Looking For Things On Ebay It's Important You Look Through As Many Results As You Can Being By Price Being Cheapest Or Highest, By That Item, Time Ending Soonest, Etc.

Also To Know That Things You Look For On Ebay Can Go By Other Names, Seeing How When You Search For Something On Ebay It's Searching For Key Words.

So If I Was Looking For Platform Shoes I Would Put Platform Shoes, Though Another Way Be Putting The Name Brand In Like Maybe For Say Demonia & Seeing What I Get.

Of Course When It Comes To Clothes & Related Things You Can Search By Style, Name, Brand, Size, Etc.

When It Comes To Other Stuff It's All About The Key Words, But Most People Normally Have A Some What Idea What There Looking For.

For Those That Don't Know You Can Try Asking Other People & They Would Know What To Look For, Etc.

Of Course A Great Way To Find Good Things On Ebay Is By Searching Through All The Pages You Can, & Ever So Often You'll Come Across An Auction That Has Exactly What Your Looking For.

Some Times Though You Can't/Won't Find It On Ebay Being The Thing/Things Your Want To Buy Or Simply Wanted To Get But Someone Else Already Beat You To It.

Simply Put Just Wait After All Ebay Is An Ever Changing Thing So If They Don't Have It Today They My Have It Tomorrow.

In The End You'll Find What Your Looking For, After All Ebay Has A Lot Stuff So With This Faq In Hand Your Surely To Become A Great Ebay Buyer.